Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith reflects on the constants within Charles Tyrrell’s practice as this uncompromising modernist prepares for his 40th anniversary exhibition in April
Marianne O’Kane Boal previews Simon McWilliams’ exhibition at the Naughton Gallery, Belfast where architectonic forms rendered in intense colour project a Kafkaesque scenario
Carissa Farrell reports on sculptor and multi-media artist Andrew Kearney’s new installation ‘Tell Me Something’ for Limerick City of Culture, which continues Kearney’s focus on the policing of the private individual
The Irish alphabet comes into focus at the inaugural exhibition of the ISBA in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, writes Alexandra Caccomo
This summer the Casino in Marino hosts an exhibition that captures the original splendour of the lost demesne, writes Rose Anne White
Maurice Harron’s Saints and Scholars herald Offaly’s monastic past, emerging from the chronicles of its landscape, writes Sinead O’Reilly
Margarita Cappock explores the nature of the intense and complicated friendship of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud
This month Dorothy Cross delves into our national collections to create a show for IMMA,here she tells Brian McAvera ‘Sometimes I need extreme new experiences to find new directions,’ while the show continues into March 2015
Brian McAvera considers the leap from all to gallery as a new generation of artists like Conor Harrington successfully negotiate both arenas
Revolutionary Ireland is a fine culmination to George Morrison’s distinguished career as a documentarist, writes Bob Quinn in his assessment of the renowned filmmaker’s latest achievement
Without decisive action, our glass heritage will once again be lost, argues Eleanor Flegg, as Róisín de Buitléar’s exhibition’Caution! Fragile’ receives an enthusiastic reception Stateside
Is 2014 the moment when a tide of enthusiasm, funding, and vision will lead to a transformation of Limerick city, asks Judith Hill
In his assessment of Fitzgerald Kavanagh and Partners’ award-winning Student Centre at UCD Seán ó Laoire charts the evolution of Ireland’s largest campus since its foundation
Cornelia McCarthy traces the cultural milieu of the inhabitants of Killenure Castle, County Tipperary, home to the Cooper family for almost three centuries
Terence Reeves-Smyth explores the development of the famous Robinsonian garden outside Saintfield, County Down
Unlike passage tombs which tend to be prominent landmarks, rock art is practically invisible, and requores intensive prospecting in order to be found write Christiaan Corlett in his evaluation of Ireland’s earliest known artform
A lack of exhibition space and restricted budgets dog many museums, not least Ireland’s National Museum whose African artefacts Peter Somerville-Large recalls last viewing as a schoolboy
Simone Mancini and Adrian Le Harivel select a painting from the Care of the Collection display at the National Gallery of Ireland
